skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's free advertising" is an argument I see a lot, but I've never seen the numbers to see how much that actually matters in the real world. Well, I guess I've seen some, but it's always from ad companies anyways.
I don't agree, but more to the point I didn't say or even suggest this:

Hamas is a creation of Israel

So I think we can wrap up here.
Good to know. I bought a new dishwasher recently and all the mid-high end ones have WiFi and I wondered if it would do this. Fortunately not (it's a Bosch).

Also I was initially like "pff who needs WiFi in a dishwasher" but one neat feature is that there's a customisable button and you can program it with new programmes. (Yes I'm writing that.)

I mean, it already has plenty so I haven't bothered to actually use that feature, but it is something I didn't initially think of at least. Better diagnostics would also be a good use but I'm not putting money on them having implemented that (I guess we'll find out if/when it goes wrong).
> a phone with one-handed usability

How about a Pinephone with SXMo?
Alberta, Canada.

You could layer up for mild cold, say down to -5C / 23 F.

But after a certain point you need a large volume of warm dry feathers around you.

The worst is probably actually freezing rain, which happens around 0C / 32 F. It’s not as cold, but the water and ice is more efficient than Alberta’s thin, usually dry mountain air at taking your precious heat away. You really want to be waterproof when that happens.
Discussion [0] (39 points, 3 days ago, 73 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40253637
Didn't we recently see an article talking about how Google was encouraged by the federal government because the federal government saw an opportunity for surveillance? The federal government is not interested in protecting privacy. We shouldn't trust them when they say they are.
The whole thing is nuts. They have the wrong costs multiplied by the wrong time period to get the wrong answers. https://coreweave.com/gpu-cloud-pricing says an A100 40GB NVLink is $2.06 whereas the article says $2.39.

That's $1483.20 a month, whereas the article says $1200 and should say $1720 if they'd got the maths right.
> Also of note that Hetzner is profitable, which means AWS has been operating at an insane markup.

You can also evidence of this on their 10-Q :^)
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For low-income people, debt is slavery.

For high-income people, debt is a powerful tool.

The vast majority of people fall into group #1 and need to treat debts like credit cards and car payments with extreme caution.
I think your guess of AI generation makes sense for the math discrepancy.
In France, one day every year (les journées de l'énergie EDF) you can go visit nuclear power plants: you'll get access to the control-room simulator (where my wife used to work, BTW) and even visit the “machine room” where the turbines are. This is a very cool visit, which I deeply recommend if you are into this kind of things. (Idk if it's open to foreign visitors though, likely yes for EU citizens, but other nations seems a bit less likely but not completely impossible given you don't get to see any sensitive stuff).
It could be the first Chinese kernel module with the expressed intent of running a game.

I am not sure why you're dismissing my comment. The less software that runs at the kernel level, the less risk I incur just running my machine.
Interesting - I’ve never had a wool / down combo. Is the wool waterproof?
the US housing 'lock-in effect' –quantified
1) Up to 1.5' is still pretty short for a normal bollard in the US. As mentioned they're usually at least 30-32" (sometimes even 40") not 18".

2) Ok, but we shouldn't design our safety infrastructure based on some hypothetical, we should base it off the actual realities of the spaces the equipment will be operating in.

3) So essentially just those little parking stop blocks, not actual bollards.

4) 100kg isn't going to do much to stop a 1,300kg vehicle going even 20km/h. You think two people are going to stop a car going that fast? The car will just keep moving after hitting one of these, assuming it doesn't just go right over it.

5) You really don't think there's a difference in export/import valuations internationally or that manufacturing costs differ between countries? A chunk of concrete made in Russia has vastly different economics from a chunk of concrete made in Germany from a chunk of concrete made in the US.

For example, a small parking stop block in the US costs like $60+, before delivery costs.

https://www.nitterhousemasonry.com/our-products/concrete-par...

Here's an example of an actual concrete bollard sold in the US. Starting at $835/ea. Note these have a hollow core; they're kind of intended to be put on to a metal post embedded in the actual concrete because in an actual collision with a moving car the car would just push these out of the way. So really this is $835, after spending almost a thousand dollars on the metal post solidly integrated into the concrete slab below.

https://www.belson.com/Round-Concrete-Security-Bollards

An example of the kind of post these would slip over: (only $2,800USD if you buy 50-99!)

https://www.reliance-foundry.com/shop/bollard/crash-rated/r-...

These (or the cheaper ~$1,000 ones) are the kinds of bollards 7/11 would be installing in front of their stores to protect customers. Which, comparing $2,800USD to $20USD, you can see why I had skepticism.

There's ~9,400 7/11 locations in the US. Lets say they install 6 bollards per location, and they go with the about $1,000 option. That's ~$56 million in just the costs of the bollards, without factoring in delivery to 9,400 sites. Also without factoring in any of the labor to install them, or the other material costs like the new concrete for the pad they're embedding into or the concrete filling the post. And the material cost for these bollards are cheap compared to paying the people to actually plan them, source them, install them, paint them, and inspect them. So realistically I'd imagine it would cost 7/11 probably at least a couple hundred million dollars to just install six new bollards at every one of their US locations.
>hook pricing (aka up front pricing that looks low and turns out high) is only rational.

Yes, many deceptive business practices are rational acts on the part of the businesses. That doesn't mean they should be tolerated.
It seems to be that a large part of the AWS business model is the revenue received as a fledgling startup tries to grow (and ideally succeeds) into a large company.

As a small tech startup, an easy button for compute needs is perfectly sensible, as it allows focusing on the product. If the startup grows switching becomes more expensive, so AWS gets its money as long as the amounts are not seen as the main cost driver. That stage, I think (with no hard data), is the AWS sweetspot. The company is paying a lot for AWS, but does not yet want to do a full analysis, hire dedicated cloud cost optimization staff and deal with friction of switching.

If the startup grows stable and profitable it will likely do a proper cost analysis and make AWS bills saner, maybe with a mix of on-prem, AWS and non-AWS cloud services. But that requires a stable period, both in time and in functionality, which is not something that an unprofitable startup has.

I think with the end of ZIRP and tighter access to VC funds the number of startups that can afford losing a lot of money to go through an explosive growth period will shrink, and so will the AWS profits.
If you used the program once during the trial period then came back to it again for some reason or another after the trial expired, the trial worked exactly as intended: You want to use the program again, so it's asking you to pay up.

I don't see the problem here other than "I don't want to pay for software." which isn't the programmer's concern. If you don't want to pay, the programmer likewise couldn't give a damn if you can't use his program.
I'd also recommend the book The taking of k-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History by Josh Dean.
That level of effort is something I think matters a lot. If you could make it incredibly easy for people to spend $1-2 (and no more), you could get a TON of money out of people. I dunno how you'd solve that major structural issue, but if you could, it sounds like a goldmine. If nothing else, microtransactions in software would probably explode more than they already have.
Carnivorous plants:

https://www.getanyplant.com/plants?query=carnivorous
Then why did the court upturn the FDAs Juul ban? And why don't FDA try to ban cigarettes?

There is a case to be made that vaping is safer than smoking, since it is free of ingesting the harmful products of combustion like tar and carbon compounds.
Even full-blown OEM heartrate monitors seem to be relatively ineffective (at least, in my experience this is true when talking about watches specifically). I can't imagine this would do a great job, would it?
I've been using it for some time and it works well.
Awesome, thanks for pointing me here.

I tested with the flags and adding the --enable-Vulkan switch, but to no avail. But I have a somewhat non-standard setup both software and hardware, so I'm not terribly surprised. (Kubuntu 22.04 on an MSI laptop with an nvidia 3060, using proprietary non-free/blob driver 535.)

I will be playing with webGPU in the coming weeks on a number of platforms, seems like a no-brainer for the current state of AI stuff.
Yeah, meant only as a sample. I mainly mean leaving the really introductory stuff behind. My emphasis now is ~middleschool.
New-style wool is softer than traditional wool but it wears out quickly (~5-10 years of seasonal use).

Traditional wool is scratchier but lasts much longer. Things labeled "Donegal" tend to be of that type, but read the description, since that's the name of a town, not the type of wool.
It would be cool to add a sort of public plant wikipedia with info on care about a plant. I love to keep plants, but some are just hard to maintain right.
I think this (qualia) is certainly the heart of the issue, and I personally go back and forth from some kind of quietism (or some kind of mysterianism), and some kind of illusionism. The latter position I would have found utterly topic-changing for the better part of 2 decades, but now I am finding it more plausible as I lose confidence in first-person reports and a series of related phenomena (documented by people like Eric Schwitzgebel).

I'll also add the eliminative materialism is probably not the precise position to describe his views on consciousness. You could be the polar opposite of Dennett, like a Jerry Fodor, and still be a staunch anti-realist about consciousness (a view that I think Fodor even entertained). I take EM to be an assault on folk psychology, which may or may not include qualia, and illusionism is probably the better term for his position on qualia.
Do you think the retrofit gas-to-EV conversions will help, as options there expand and improve?
I don’t think that’s right. You can’t force someone to pay to not have tracking cookies (or something that infringes on the right to privacy). Facebook tried the same tactic and was forced to stop.
k3s is very simple to setup and and nodes to. if the machines are on the same LAN or the internet then it's not such a complex job albeit you need to know the basics of kubernetes.
Maybe 30 years ago, the National Academy of Sciences produced a book, funded by the DOD on exercise-induced anorexia and accompanying lean mass loss among military personnel in very demanding training--ranger school etc. I glanced at the first few pages, of which I remember basically, "yes, it's a problem">
https://console.crusoecloud.com/request

They are providing H100s, A100s, L40s for very cheap. They also do not charge for the network usage. I Highly recommend them as the price per flop is unbeatable anyplace, and they have over 4000 gpus to use at a time.
Discussion [0] (70 points, 1 hour ago, 57 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40276957
Meh, the glengerry glen ross one gets forwarded every couple of years by hustle bros. IMO its total BS, its predicated on what I call the 'don't outrun the bear, outrun the fattest camper' ideology.

I know this will not be appreciated here, but, the problem with hustle mindset is that as labor you only have your time to trade for money. the hope hustle-bros have is that do it enough and they'll make it to 'capital class' and enjoy fruits of other 'labor class'. problem is in process of doing so they introduce additional rat-race and make thing difficult for other labor-ers while capital enjoys fruits of their collective competition for free.
If you want less Excel and more Wargames in your nuclear simulations, DEFCON is fun to spend a few hours in once in a while.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1520/DEFCON/
Are you sure this is a simulation of life? All the story is talking about is longer nerves, brain still connected to the body, it's just slightly further away.
> For high-income people, debt is a powerful tool.

How?
I'm not saying you did, I'm just emphatically pushing back on the idea that Netanyahu's support for Hamas is instrumental to its staying power or in some way its reason for existing. It's clear what Netanyahu's purpose for assisting it was --- to divide Palestine between Fatah and Hamas and prevent the emergence of a coherent Palestinian state. Similarly, the US had very particular goals in supporting Afghan Mujahideen, which turned out to be quite different than those groups actual reason to exist.

As I'm sure you're aware, this notion that Hamas is (or was, before the IDF demolished it) a puppet for Netanyahu has a lot of currency in online spaces. I don't see you making that argument! But it's worth calling it out. It is fine --- maybe even... dare I say it... good? --- if we say things that we agree on aloud.
10 years afterwards and GCC still produces the huge error messages. It seems Clang is now smart enough to stop compiling after too many errors.
broadcast license fee/tv license fee
https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/
I wanted to learn more about the inner workings of k8s and I personally learn best when I create (or recreate) something. I doubt this will ever contend with k8s and I am okay if it does not.
Not all states require a title to legally sell a car, and some have exemptions for older cars too.
As a practicing Muslim, yup I have no love for the Saudi regime (same with the Iranian regime, Taliban, etc.).

That being said you'll find a variety of opinions with the Muslim community both from Saudi and non-Saudi Muslims.

I imagine my relationship with KSA is similar to how some if not many US Jews feel with Israel. Just like I have an emotional attachment to Mecca and Medina which is currently under Saudi control I can understand how those among the Jewish diaspora may have an emotional attachment to Israel or believe in principle jewish self determination even when they vehemently oppose the government or have reservations about the modern state.
I've experienced this. My property taxes have gone up maybe 30% in the past few years. My income has increased pretty substantially, so it's not like I'm unable to pay for the increases. Compared to rent though, and having a mortgage where every month the amount of principle paid off increases, it still seems like the better option.

Rent has increased 30-50% where I live over the same time period. At least when my property tax increases, it's because I have an asset that has increased in value. If I am at some point forced to sell because I can no longer afford the property taxes, then I'll walk away with more money than if I had been paying rent for those same years.

Property taxes can force the same type of relocation that rent increases cause, but I think the typical outcome from someone being forced out by rising property taxes will be better than the person forced out by rising rents.
For anyone not aware, Daniel died few weeks ago
You sure it isn’t DRMed video? It’s the same on all platforms

I’m not at my computer to check, but if this really is true, use VLC to get screen grabs from videos
> iPhone captured all of the "sheep" consumers (the ones that just want what everyone else has) successfully (and still owns them somehow),

This is not a good take. Android was a highly fractured ecosystem that didn't really have good unified product experience until Nexus and Galaxy S3 rolled around. You don't go to a $1000 phone because a $100 phone sucks.
Synthetic clothing is amazing if you live in the tropics. Where the humidity is so high, you start sweating right when you get out of the shower.

Also in countries where line drying is common and most homes don't have dryers.

Cotton clothing that doesn't get enough sun when line drying smells really bad if you sweat. Worse than any synthetic clothing in my experience.
I bought it from Typespec :)
Pal – An AI that understands you (GPT Prompt Template)
Not exactly the most ambitious project, is it. Besides the fact that both ARD and ZDF majorly struggle with the content itself in terms of quality and availability (it's not an archive, everything disappears quickly). One day they'll figure out this internet neuland thing ;)
I've mostly become adept at traversing six mile long compile error crawls to find the bit in my code causing the STL/Thrust complaint. clang is more legible for this than gcc. Still, I keep learning new patterns.
Ask HN: How do you send international money transfers?
Hi HN,
I make international business transfers almost every week. I have been blindly using Wise so far but now I am exploring other methods with lower fees.

I have tried [Wise](https://wise.com/), [Cinco](https://www.dotcinco.com/) (Fast but fees are similar to Wise), [Atlantic](https://atlantic.money/) (lower fees but no web platform).

Also, what is the opinion on platforms like [Wind](https://wind.app/)?
Show HN: Redirect.Monster – Trace URL Redirections with Enhanced Detail
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Nico
Atleast vaping doesn't make people ingest the very harmful products of combustion, tars and other nasty products of the burning that happens inside normal cigarettes.

Don't you think that is an important reduction of harm from smoking cigarettes?
I know someone who recently retired, sold his expensive home, and bought a new home in a cheaper area outright with cash.

He had a fixed income that would easily cover his living expenses. He had an investment portfolio that he is planning to pass on to his family.

By investing his cash and getting a mortgage on his home- he certainly would have made enough money to cover his mortgage on interest. But, he'd be at risk of going cash flow negative, and having to liquidate some of his investments to cover his mortgage + lifestyle.

He knew that having to liquidate investments would bother him- it'd be a lot harder to justify that vacation if he'd have to sell some stocks. Those stocks are for his family in his mind.

By buying that home outright, he now knows that he's going to be cash flow positive for as long as he's alive. He'll never have to dip into his stocks. And he'll never have to stretch a dollar.

It's not a strategy that you'd come up with on a spreadsheet, but he's one of the happiest guys I know
Here, Have Some Extra Carbon Credits
Oh, I am not saying I quit. I meant to say I made an attempt at quitting and succeeded for sometime. I am not calling vaping “quitting”.

What does my quitting have to do with its effects? If nicotine is dangerous it’s going to be that way if I quit of not.
The one that concerns me personally is the whole wastewater recycling directly to drinkable tap water.

Between micro-plastics from washing machines to medicine disposal, the long term unknowns to human health seem to be significant, not to mention the potential for human error.
I do not think it was a waste, I got to learn more about k8s, I personally learn best when I create (or recreate) stuff.
Source URL was only submitted[0] 4 hours ago (2 points, 3 comments so far)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40275015
When you get to 100k, will the next increment be to 200k then?
ChatGPT can work for such needs. People are already using it to create workbooks.
Yeah it's more than absurd. I have a rented server that does 230TB egress a month. That's 4710$ in AWS egress fees (0.02$ per GB). I pay 40 Euros or about 0.0002 per GB and that includes an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 with 64GB RAM.
I should add that I’m agnostic as to the actual reality of things, and a perspective that has felt useful to me is to remind myself that the fields of science are a map, and that there are portions of the map that are just completely undefined. We know there’s a terrain to explore, but haven’t made much progress in increasing the fidelity of that portion of the map. What I do know is that the fundamental Christian version of beliefs leaves a particularly shaped imprint on the psyche, and my relationship with what I thought myself to be started shifting/expanding when I started diving deeper into these unexamined “mystical” notions and having those notions confront the scientific view. That confrontation is what leaves me agnostic.

As the map gets better and better, it’s seen as more and more acceptable to look at that map as if it provides ultimate answers. But it still has nothing to tell us about primordial existence.

Consciousness sits in the same category of unexplained and possibly unexplainable.

Who knows. Maybe all matter truly is conscious and the spectrum of available conscious states scales with the complexity of the matter’s configuration. In either case, I don’t feel that a purely mechanical explanation is necessarily relevant to the question people often claim it answers.

Looks like a good thread. Thanks.
Funny, when I saw the headline I thought, "I hope they're using a trompe / Canot compressor or similar for efficient isothermal compression and expansion."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50fJ8Av_g7Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvf0lD5xzH0

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27066295

Sad to see people are misinterpreting the cleverness of isothermal compression, and thinking it's "just" thermal storage.
> Such placement implies

P.S.: Or perhaps that cars must be given the ability to drive on top of the sidewalks in order to dodge other cars that are driving erratically, but I feel that logic is still kinda questionable.
Because it's not as liquid, it's not as easily verified, the supply doubles every 40 years, it's not as easily protected (compared to multi-sig bitcoin), I can't send it around the world in 10 minutes, and I can't take it across borders in my head. It doesn't form the basis for the entire world's future reserve asset and monetary unit, and the market is mature/saturated whereas bitcoin is completely misunderstood by almost everyone and so is wildly undervalued.

Bitcoin is demonetising gold.
"XCode is a poor tool to create apps that do X"

"We tried a particular approach using XCode to create an app that does X but were unsuccessful. Therefore, nobody is able to use Xcode to create apps that do X"

If there are 150,000 ICD codes an Agent may be able to accomplish this that leverages LLMs in the process. LLMs may be able to be used as _part of a process_ that does successfully accomplish this task.
Very uncommon in the US but one needs to do their due diligence.